Lately, I’ve been using prompts from a different webpage, as I’ve written on almost every prompt WordPress has listed. But every now and then, I find on worth revisiting. Or re-revisiting.
This may not qualify as THE BEST advice. I’ve ever gotten (I’ve written about the previously HERE and HERE). But this one is some of the best professional advice I’ve ever gotten, and it still holds up.
I believe it was during the 2004-2005 school year, which would been my first year teaching in South Carolina. One Friday after work, i was trying to be the “teacher who gets all the paperwork on their desk completed before leaving the building”. X1 has done stuff going on at her build after school so i knew i would be walking into an empty house, and i always admired those teacher who walked out of their classroom with no “homework”. These are basically the one who try to treat teaching like it’s a 9-5 office job, which it is not. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise issues not doing the job right.
It was just after 5 PM that day when one of by co-workers, who I’ll call “Foxy” stuck her head in my room and said “Rob. Go home. All those paper will still bee here on Monday morning”.
Foxy was right and I knew it. So I quietly packed up my things (I may have taken a few papers home to grade) and unceremoniously left the building. The truth is, Foxy’s advice spoke volumes the work-life balance and the myth of being the workplace hero.
In that last paragraph, I described myself as leaving “unceremoniously” because I did. I didn’t receive a standing ovation from the fans or a dugout full of high-fives, like I just threw 7 shout innings of baseball. No one knew about, let alone cared that I was trying to get everything done before I left the building that day
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, and maybe it’s just because people are becoming more aware of mental health issues. But I’ve seen those signs often. They say things like “don’t spend so much time trying to make a living that you forgot to make a life”. I know that I’ve used that quote before another post, but it still rings very true. And that’s what Foxy was talking about on Friday afternoon.
We’ve all seen a social media say things too if I do “don’t die for your job, because your bosses will list the opening in the paper before your body goes cold” and it’s absolutely true. We work to give ourselves a lifestyle that we want to live. We don’t live to work; we work to live.
Just a healthy reminder on this dreary Monday morning.
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